outsidebroadcast-rigging-bitesize26-commentatordirector.mp4

<div>This video is part of a series that shows how riggers placed
cables, cameras, microphones and other vital equipment in place at the
beginning of an outside broadcast assignment.</div><div><br></div><div>This footage was filmed in May 2016 on location at Northop Hall hotel near Hawarden in Flintshire, United Kingdom.</div><div><br></div><div>A
team of veteran television outside broadcast camera operators,
electricians, riggers, sound engineers, producers and production
assistants who worked on BBC outside broadcasts in the 1960s and 1970s
recreated various aspects of their work.</div><div><br></div><div>Their
working practices and memories were filmed using fixed miniature cameras
and recorded using wireless microphones. The recreations and
conversations were free-flowing with occasional questions and
interventions from the ADAPT crew.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the project</b></div><div>ADAPT
(2013-8) is a European Research Council project at Royal Holloway
University of London. The project studies the history of technologies in
television, focussing on their everyday use in production activities.<br></div><div><br></div><div>ADAPT
examines what technologies were adopted and why; how they worked; and
how people worked with them. As well as publishing written accounts, the
project carries out 'simulations' that reunite retired equipment with
the people who used to use it.</div><div><br></div><div>Participants in
these simulations explain how each machine worked and how different
machines worked together as an 'array'; how they adapted the machines;
and how they worked together as teams within the overall production
process.</div>